COLOSSIANS 3:3

                                                by Elder Tim Brown                                   

Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.         

When Jesus was crucified our sins and our flesh were put to death. The life or better said our living death of existence before our salvation was and is not life. Although we breathed, although we spoke, although we heard, although we walked, and although we went through every motion of life, we were not alive. Anyone alienated from God is dead and every child of God and every child of wrath was or is an alien to God because of sin. The sin that was put to death upon the cross was our existence. We were a prisoner and a servant to sin. Our existence was sin. Sin is put to death and brethren so are we. We live not unto ourselves. We live unto our God. Christ is the only life and he who hath son hath life. If we are not in Christ, we are not living and our existence is in vain and we are a vessel created for dishonor.

This verse shows a wonderful chain of life between the believer, Christ, and the triune God. We know that Christ is the only begotten Son. Begotten means to come out of, so Christ proceeded from the Father. Christ is the righteous one and there is no sin in Him. Christ came to this world to bare the sins of the elect. Where the sins of the elect corrupted the elect unto to death, Christ was not able to be corrupted although he had become our sins that he should put them and our sinful life to death eternally (Psalms 16:10). Christ did what we could not do and that is to break the power of sin and bare the judgment of the Father. Once Christ had purged our sins, he arose from the dead resurrected ready to return to the Father. For when he returned to the Father he returned with the life of every elect secured in His salvation. For the elect not only live in Christ, they live in the complete triune God. A separation from this God is death eternal.  Jesus died the eternal death as he was separated from the Father as demonstrated by his cry, My God, My God why hast thou forsaken me (Matthew 27:46). He bore the righteous judgment of His Father and went down into hell, but he did not see corruption. Corruption is the sinful evidence that one is guilty before the Righteous Law of God. Christ was not guilty and since he was God he could raise himself from the dead. When the appointed time had come, he returned to the Father. When this world passes and all things are subdued under the Son, then the Son will subject himself to the Father, and we will see God all in all. God is Righteous and all those things absent from God are unrighteous and the time will come when God will tolerate the unrighteous no more and he will exact his final judgment so that he be mocked no more. We pray that we are found to be His when he comes by and by and that we should know as we are also known that our life is hid in Christ in God.